Wednesday, August 31, 2011

Halloweenies set consists of extra-quirky images. I literally cracked myself up when I drew their expressions.

I LOVE vintage, but I also love cute, so I made Perpetual Bliss with a whole lot of both! I thought of fun images that I am not seeing everywhere. We like to give you a range of unique images and sentiments to create with

Sunny Side Up is a builder set that is full of sunshine and other totally happy images...ohhhh, the possibilities friends :)

You have ONE MORE WEEK to participate in our SPARKS Challenge. Deadline is Sept. 7.

Our release day also falls on the first Thursday of the month, which means that it's guest designer search time. (huge grin)

Here are the details:

Guest Designers will receive 2 NEW stamp
sets and 2 shaped card templates and will have their name and
projects featured here on the PS blog for 3-4 weeks (depending on how
many weeks there are in the month).

You will have approx. two
weeks to show us your talent! You can submit as many projects as you
like and past submissions are welcome. Guest designers are not chosen
randomly. We will be looking for designers who stand out in one (or
more) of the following categories:

great use of color

outstanding design

mad coloring skills

fun paper piecing

pure cleverness

You will need to use a Paper Smooches stamp or any of our FREE digi
stamps. A new digi image and sentiment were added to the PS web site
last night. You can find it HERE. Past digi images and sentiments were moved to a tab at the top of this blog

Add a direct link to your project using the Inlinkz system below.

The deadline is Wednesday, September 14. Our September guest designer will be announced on Thursday, September 15.

I drew the cherry blossom (at least that's what I think it is) and copied and pasted it to create a cluster. I can never have enough "thanks" sentiments, so I decided to make a generic digi this month. Enjoy :)

Teri knocked this stamp set out of the park! She was dabbling in some "Perpetual Bliss" and made this really fun and playful card using our telephone, notes and sentiment. She paper pieced the phone bases and chose a super fresh color combo!

This is one little teaser before our release. Thank you for being here with us!
xoxo
Kim

Tuesday, August 30, 2011

Laurie created this darling card using "Frankie" from Halloweenies. That's just dang fun to say, LOL :)

Her sentiment is heat embossed with black, can you tell? Super fabulous coloring and awesome design - great job Laurie! Ohhhh how I wish I could tie a bow that perfect - sigh

I am thrilled that Karolyn is joining us this month. Her style is wonnnnnderful. It's playful and fresh and I am looking forward to sharing her creations with all of you.

Let's start by swooning over that polka dotted moon...and move onto her sweet little die cut fence. A gingham pumpkin - be still my heart! She nails this card with such a super cute sentiment. awesome card in every way!

Monday, August 29, 2011

Kryssi has a way with gorgeous colors. That bright sun makes my day brighter, for sure. I think she airbrushed her background....all I know is that it's FABULOUS!! She added a flight path with a black pen, very cool!

Heidi
How fun that both girls used white on teal! I LOVE those soft clouds...and her kite is TDF (to die for)

Hope your weekend was wonderful - and that you have a fabulous week!
xo
Kim

Friday, August 26, 2011

Yesterday you had your first taste of our "Sunny Side Up" stamp set. Well, how about a big whopper of a peek today? I used the clouds, smile and sentiment to make this "odd" card. I have to say that it didn't quite turn out like I had envisioned, but I embraced the end result and here it is. It's supposed to be a sun among a rainbow.

Here are some more examples of what can be created with just this ONE stamp set.

Please keep in mind that I used a brand spankin' new - JUICY black ink pad

There's an open circle that can be used for:
Sun - the triangle rays are separate (one is solid and the other is open) - ok, so the pumpkin idea didn't work, but I think it would have if I used the open triangle instead. I used the rain drop for piggy tails for the crying little girl. You can make silly faces

The raindrop becomes a butterfly, flowers and clovers. The smile can become a leaf

This is probably going to be one of those stamp sets that I am going to see amazing creativity with from all of you amazing designers. I truly look forward to it!

Thursday, August 25, 2011

It's Pep Rally week and we are here today to share a sampling of the Paper Smooches
September stamp release with you! The Three NEW clear stamp sets will
be available to purchase on September 1st. You will find them HERE. Follow the Paper Smooches blog for more sneak peeks.

To add extra fun to our blog hop...we are offering up a prize!
Just leave a comment on any of the five design team blogs listed below
for your chance to win one of the three new September stamp sets! (you
do not need to comment on all blogs to qualify) You have until midnight
MT on Friday, August 26th to leave a comment. Please check all five
blogs on Saturday, August 27th to see if you are one of the five lucky
winners.

We are joined this month by the very talented Karolyn Loncon.
Heather has her hands full this month, so Karolyn is stepping in for
her. Heather will be back for our next blog hop on Sept. 22.

To increase your chances of winning:1. leave a comment on this blog post2. tell us that you Facebooked about our blog hop3. tell us that you Tweetedabout our blog hop4. tell us that you posted on your blogabout our blog hop(which means that you have up to four chances to win on each blog)

I used our new set that's called SUNNY SIDE UP. This set contains 26 images and sentiments. It has tons of fun "in the sky" theme stamps....eeeeeek. We are hoping that this set will brighten up everyone's day! :) We will continue to show sneaks through release day. CAN'T WAIT!!

can you say ADORABLE? It almost looks like that little chick is blowing on the sail...hehe. LOVE this wicked cute card!!

ahhh, pure cleverness. Did you notice the BLUE "HI" letters that spell out the sentiment? I am diggin' that blue ice cream flavor. Great card Alison. It was wonderful having you with us this month. It has been a pleasure. Thank you for sharing your talent with us :)

Our blog hop is tomorrow...which means there will be 5 stamp sets to give away. See you then

Thursday, August 18, 2011

CONGRATULATIONS!! You are our September guest designer and this is the
card that made me swoooon

ohhhh how I LOVE this card...let me count the ways:
1. The color combo
2. The crisp look
3. The paper pieced elephants
4. The patterns that you chose for the elephants
5. The brilliant design
6. The simple way you accented this sweet card

We welcome you to our team for October Debby!

I am SO impressed with your creativity everyone :) I want you
to keep submitting because I can see a ton of serious talent! It's just so darn hard to choose just one! You can keep submitting the same cards - please don't give up,
ok?

THANK YOU so much for entering our search, you are all amazing! I am
really looking forward to our October guest designer search - details
will be posted on September 1st.

Wednesday, August 17, 2011

We continue with day THREE of our Glue Arts promotion. I know that I can't
wait to see what more of their designers have created with Paper
Smooches stamps. I have to run my daughter to an appt. this morning, but I will be back after with a giveaway from Glue Arts...please stay tuned. Here's their blog link.

Glue Arts giveaway details:

The prize is shown above...nice right? ONE random winner will receive...Glue Glider Pro, a 3D Combo Pack and our Extreme Adhesive Squares....woohoooo. Please leave a comment here - and tell us what main adhesive you use. I use mounting squares, mainly because I can cut them if needed. You have until midnight on Thursday, August 18th and I will post the winner on Friday, August 19th. Good luck!

Our September Guest Designer search ends tonight...get those submissions in :) HERE are the details in case you missed them.

If you haven't heard...we have a monthly challenge that's called SPARKS...the prize is sweet! HERE are the details

Alison joins us today with her wicked creativity. She has a much better way of describing her process than I do...she truly thinks outside the box...all I know is - WOW!!! here is her cute BLOG

I can describe this one though...it's CUTE!! super-dooooooper cute!!

ahhhh Miss Teri created this adorable card using Fruitastic, Word Up and Alphadot. I love the bow! and her coloring is just so sweet :)

Friday, August 12, 2011

I am here today to share some ideas of how to use our Sugar Rush stamp set.

I used a new ink pad, so my lines may be a bit "juicy", I apologize :)

sooo, we have a cake pop with a candy (glittered) topping that can also be a caramel apple

popsicles (any flavor) do you remember Pudding Pops?....yummmmy

a pattern

a donut "as is" and one with a candle. Notice that I masked the top of the donut to add the candle. k, so that is a weird word, gotta say...is it spelled like doughnut? I would want to say Doug-nut then...ack, I am not liking that word, LOL (I am over it, onto the next image) I added two eyes to the chocolate (or maple iced) donut with a black pen

gum drops (the green one is glittered)

cansy corn

hard candy

cupcakes with different sprinkles

drink glasses, one with Coke and the other with Mountain Dew

Fruit Loops, gummy rings, lifesavers

I just have a simple card to share today. I combined our Fruitastic stamp set with Alphadot

Thursday, August 11, 2011

woohoooo, here we are again on the second Thursday, showing off some Paper Smooches projects that found while patroling the net! Post your projects on your blog, Facebook, and our Fan Flickr page for a chance to be showcased here!

Samantha Taylor
I love baker's twine and I just adore what Samantha did with hers. It adds such wonderful texture!! She used this month's FREE digis.

Cassie Trask
k, so clowns typically creep me out, but this one I can handle. How funny that Cassie transformed our little monster into a clown, hehe. I wanna kiss those lips! Did you notice that she used the puff of smoke from our Spiffy Scooters stamp set?

Karin Akesdotter
O-M-Geee, how silly is this? If you venture over to Karin's blog, you will so many fun and quirky cards using our stamps. She places our images in places that they just don't belong - which I LOVE! Serioulsy, are you NOT chucking right now???

Donna Bowman
Ahhhh, I am drooling over all of these wonderful patterns! She was inspired by one of Cath's Tuesday Trigger Inspiration pieces from Moxie Fab World and I think she rocked it! Our Pretty Phrases completes this card perfectly.

Joy Taylor
Oh, I just love the soft colors that Joy chose. Her paper choices are divine. What a great card for a man or woman...what wonderful simplicity, great job!

Thank you for sharing your talent with us! It's a pleasure to show off your talent! You make it harder and harder every month.

You could be next. Show off those PS cards and we may find yours too!
smooches
Kim

Wednesday, August 10, 2011

I hope you are having a nice week so far :) Thank you for stopping by.

I am not sure if this technique has a name, but Teri stamped the kangaroo and then stamped her 2 more times with the same ink as the first image, making each image lighter and giving the look of movement. She used crayons to color which gives her card a softened look. Her sentiment treatment is fabulous!

Check out this totally playful card by Alison - A polka dotted pink frog - what a crack up! I love that frayed grass!! She curved the dotted line to make bounces and added texture to the clouds with more polka dots. VERY clever card!

This card is wicked cool. Does the flower make you think of camouflage? She colored the bananas from Fruitastic to make a large scalloped border. The flower petals are form the lemon stamp and the center is the blueberry. The flower pattern is made from an accent found on our Boob Tubes stamp set.

Tuesday, August 9, 2011

Laurie used our peach and sentiment and made them look absolutely delicious!! I wish I could color like her. This card could have easily been a Halloween theme card by making the peach a pumpkin and changing the sentiment.

ahhhh, where to begin? Heather makes the most fabulous bows...and when she uses yellow, my heart melts. She stamped, colored and cut all of those yummy strawberries...wow! Don't you just love her woven basket? Those pokey polka dots makes the perfect background! Sweet card Heather :)

Monday, August 8, 2011

It's official...we are welcoming retail stores to carry our stamps. woohoooo! This a very exciting time for us! If you have a local craft store that you would like to see carry Paper Smooches stamps...please refer them to our web site. (we sure would appreciate it) Here are the details:

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Hello everyone! My name is Kim Hughes and I am the owner and Illustrator for Paper Smooches. I LOVE sharing my art with the world & I hope my fun and unique designs make you smile. Thank you for visiting us, I am so happy you are here.